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We Did It, They Hid It: How Memorial Day Was Stripped Of Its African American Roots | Black Then Charlie Parker, Jazz Players, Jazz Concert, Jazz Artists, Carnegie Hall, All That Jazz, Jazz Musicians, Jazz Blues, Jazz Music

Written by: Ben Becker What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipationand commemorate those who died for that cause. These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general ...

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The sexiest backdrop to be a drug addict: Jazz. A little known fact about our jazz greats from Coltrane in the photo above to Charlie Parker, hard drugs were believed to be the channel of musical greatness. Coltrane struggled with heavy alcohol use along with a heroine addiction. This musical environment was fresh, scandalous, edgy and wild- quite normal for the music industry of today. But this is where that lifestyle derives from. The jazz age laid the foundation of drug use for music.

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